Wednesday, April 23, 2014
LOOP – An Iphone Bumper with Ear Phone Management Utility
Loop is a product designed in order to help music lovers on-the-go to manage and protect their in-ear phones along with their IPhone protection. A simple design solving of an unnoticed problem which leads to breaking of in-ear phone wires accidentally. When you travel in metros, you usually end up wrapping the wires of the in-ear phones on the phone itself which further breaks internal fragile wires as there is no accessible product designed specially taking the phone safety and the accessory safety together into consideration.
Easily 3D printable using polycarbonate plastic and also works with material variation such as powder coated metal. This product design offers you:
- Ergonomic design
- Easy to put on and remove accessory
- Sturdy plastic protection
- Color customization
- It supports different head phones
A simple utility added to an existing bumper designed for an IPhone in order to protect the device from physical damage.
Designer : Subinay Malhotra
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LOOP – An Iphone Bumper with Ear Phone Management Utility is originally posted on Tuvie
EpiShell Epinephrine Injector by Hong Ying Guo
Most of patients don’t carry their Epinephrine auto-injector around and usually after 3 months, they forget how to use EpiPen. EpiShell Epinephrine Injector is a concept EpiPen inspired by the use of smartphone. Yes, most people have and carry this little gadget as if their life depends on it, patients also need to make an emergency call after injection, not to mention smartphone also functions as reminder and deflect medical fear. This project combines portable power charger for your smartphone with Epi-pen, it works as a complement of your smartphone and health.
The goal of EpiShell design is to become a user-centered solution for Epinephrine injector carriers, hopefully it deflects user’s fear for using an injector and reminds patients to always carry it daily. The integrated wireless mobile charger, Bluetooth connection and voice guidance make it a handy device to carry. The voice guidance feature is activated automatically from the cell phone when EpiShell is opened. There are only 3 easy steps to perform the injection. User has the ability to manage functions of this medical device such as IFU, emergence contact, Bluetooth connection, and refill/exp. date reminder. It works more than just medical device in your daily life.
Designer : Hong Ying Guo
EpiShell Epinephrine Injector by Hong Ying Guo is originally posted on Tuvie
The Iporanga House by Nitsche Arquitetos Associados
Nitsche Arquitetos Associados designed this house in Iporanga, Brazil.
From the architects
Iporanga House is located in Iporanga, a condominium for summer houses on Sao Paulo’s coast, approximately 120km east from the capital. This condo is inside a very well preserved and protected area of the original Atlantic Rainforest. The exuberance of this native forest has taken the client to demand a house that occupied the minimum as possible of the ground (lot) surface. But at the same time he wanted it to be large and comfortable, and asked for 5 suites, one for the couple, one for each of his 3 sons and one for guests, which demanded not less the 400m2 to be built.
So we decided to split the program in 3 levels: a suspended volume, wood structured for the 5 suites, so they would be on the trees´ crown/top; a plan, the concrete slab elevated from the ground to support all of the program social activities, living, dining room the kitchen and the swimming pool; and underneath it, on ground level there is a small enclosed area for services. A small accommodation for a house keeper couple, a laundry and a deposit.
The wood frame volume is the “private” part of the house, therefore on the street side it is enclosed by opaque boards (made of wood and covered on both faces with a cement slab), glass panels along with a nylon curtain, and on the forest side, aluminum sliding doors opening the rooms to a common veranda.
This volume creates a shadow on the slab, and we used that shadow for the social area. This “middle” floor is almost an open space, protected on all sides by transparent temperate glass sliding panels, so the forest can be seen at all times. The intention was to minimize the difference between inner and outside space, making it work all as one integration area.
The structural concept of the house was inspired by small brook bridges typical from this litoraneal area. Rising from the foundation in humid soil, concrete columns support the Steel beans which support the wood frame. We tried to make the construction an assembling of parts more than an in loco process, concerning less waste at the building site, more agility and proper use of industrialized materials.
Architect: Nitsche Arquitetos Associados
Photography by Nelson Kon